AT MATINS

**After the 1st Psalter Reading, Kathismata. Tone 6.**

Prokeimenon.

Then Psalm 118, the Evlogitaria and the Ypakoï.

**Theotokion.**

When the tomb had been opened and Hell was lamenting, Mary cried out to the hidden Apostles: Come out, workers of the vineyard, proclaim the word of the Resurrection: the Lord has risen, granting the world his great mercy.

Glory. Both now.

**Theotokion.**

Mary Magdalen stood at your tomb, O Lord, and wept as she cried out, and thinking you to be the gardener she said: Where have you laid eternal life? Where hidden the One who sits on the throne of the Cherubim? For those who were guarding him are dead from fear: either give me my Lord, or cry with me: You who were among the dead and raised the dead, glory to you!

Glory. Both now.

You, who called your Mother blessed, came to your Passion by your voluntary purpose; wishing to seek out Adam, you shone on the Cross, saying to the Angels: Rejoice with me, for the lost drachma has been found. You who wisely dispose all things, glory to you!

Glory. Both now.

After the 2nd Psalter Reading, Kathismata.

Then the Canons: of the Resurrection with the Irmi to 4, of the Assumption to 4 and of the Fathers to 6.

Life lay in the grave, and a seal lay on the stone; soldiers were guarding Christ like a sleeping king; and having struck his foes with blindness the Lord arose.

By your voluntary death we have found immortal life, O all-powerful and only Saviour of all things: for by your holy Rising you have called all back, you who abolished Hell’s victory and the sting of death.

Virgin Mother of God implore your Son, Christ our God, who was nailed willingly on a Cross and who rose from the dead, that our souls may be saved.

Tone 6.

By your voluntary and life-giving death, O Christ, you smashed the gates of Hell as God and opened Paradise of old to us; and rising from the dead you have delivered our life from corruption.

The Anavathmi of the Tone.

I lift my eyes to you, O Word, in heaven; take pity on me that I may live for you.

Have mercy on us who have had our fill of scorn; making your vessels useful again, O Word.

In the Holy Spirit is the cause of all salvation; if he breathes on someone in accordance with their deserts, swiftly he raises them from things of earth, gives them wings, makes them grow and ranges them on high.

If the Lord had not been with us, none of us could have resisted the struggle with the foe; for thereupon the victors are exalted.

Let my soul not be taken as a sparrow by their teeth, O Word; alas! how shall I, lover of sins, be delivered from the foe.

In the Holy Spirit is divine inspiration for all, goodwill, understanding, peace and blessing; for he is equal in power with the Father and the Word.

Those who trust in the Lord are fearful to their foes and wondrous to all; for they look on high.

The inheritance of the righteous, having you as their defender, will not stretch their hands to what is unlawful.

To the Holy Spirit belongs might over all; him the hosts on high worship, with everything that has breath of those below.

O Lord raise up your power and come to save us.

Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, you who guide Joseph like a flock: You who are enthroned on the Cherubim, appear. ****

Resurrection Gospel 10.

Having seen the Resurrection of Christ**, Ps.50 etc.**